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Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity John Culbert
Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity
John Culbert
Argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motion is no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figures of travel, he posits, must be rethought in this more static light.
440 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780803229914 |
| Publishers | University of Nebraska Press |
| Pages | 456 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 38 mm · 839 g |